Porringer
Samuel Minott, American, 1732 - 1803
Thomas Townsend, American, 1701 - 1777
about 1730
Silver
Overall: 7 7/8 × 2 in. (20 × 5.1 cm)
Rim: 5 1/8 in. (13 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Louise C. and Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924
M.968.41
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Food Service
Research Area
Decorative Arts
Not on view
Inscriptions
Marked on inside bottom: TT [pellet between, crown above, in square]; marked on bottom of handle: TT[ pellet between, crown above, in square]; Minott [in scriptin rectangle] / [illegible mark possibly Minott's in rectangle]; engraved on bottom, in script: The gift of / Jotham Gay / to / Mary Gay
Exhibition History
Colonial Days, Brick Store Museum, Kennebunkport, Maine, July 30-August 3, 1963.
Exhibition of Colonial Silver, Pocumtuck Valley Association, Deerfield, Massachusetts, October 27-November 6, 1950.
Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 4-June 1, 1977.
Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 1-30, 1964.
Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 2- October 11, 1978.
Massachusetts Silver of the Colonial Period, Strauss Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 1972.
New England Silver at Dartmouth College: A Tribute to Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924, Hood Musum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 33-August 20, 1989, no. 72.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, New England Silver at Dartmouth College: A Tribute to Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1989, no. 72.
Kathryn C. Buhler, Massachusetts Silver in the Frank L. and Louise C. Harrington Collection, Worcester, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, 1965, p.49-50, ill. p. 50.
Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewlers, Hanover: University Press of New England, p. 924-927, 1998.
Provenance
S. J. Shrubsole Corp, New York, New York; sold to Frank L. Harrington, Sr. (1902-1988) and Louise Cronin Harrington (1904-2000), January 19, 1961; given to present collection, 1968.
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